Reed, was your bank served with a formal preservation order for the security video logs from November fourth?” Judge Norris asked.

“Yes, Your Honor,” Samuel Reed said, his voice flat and formal.

“We pulled the digital vault logs yesterday afternoon after verifying Mrs.

Vance’s valet parking receipt from the downtown garage four miles away.”

Samuel Reed laid a printed valet receipt on the clerk’s desk next to the draft quitclaim deed.

“The valet timestamp places Mrs.

Vance’s car four miles from the main bank branch at two-fifteen, the exact minute eighty-five thousand dollars was withdrawn from Leo Vance’s trust account.”

Martha took the compact disc from Samuel Reed’s black case and loaded it into the courtroom media unit beside the clerk’s desk.